December 25th, 2013

I’m so tired about the vacuous blather about “freedom of speech” these days.

So now for something completely different…

If you’ve not read it yet, here, read something with some substance, read it now, now that you’re warmed by all the good vibes of the holiday season, think about this one guy standing up, speaking out, and putting himself on the line:

Snowden likened the NSA’s powers to those used by British authorities in Colonial America, when “general warrants” allowed for anyone to be searched. The FISA court, Snowden said, “is authorizing general warrants for the entire country’s metadata.”

December 23rd, 2013

Birthday greetings from Little Bro’ David included a photo of my first car, Piglet! $144 at Freeway Ford. We held it with about $20 in change from a pile o’ teenagers pockets, and days later, it was mine. That’s one of David’s car behind, looks like the 69 SS, so I figure this was 1974 or so.

December 18th, 2013

December 17th, 2013

We’ll be having a phone conference about Xcel Energy/GRE’s request to withdraw their Certificate of Need and the Administrative Law Judge will probably certify it to the Public Utilities Commission, meaning he will forward it to the Commission to make a decision.